<!-- 1. Please speak English, this is the language all of us can speak and write. 2. Please take a moment to check that your issue doesn't already exist. 3. Please give all relevant information below for bug reports, because incomplete details will be handled as an invalid report. --> # Aer Information - Aer Version (or commit ref): eb088cd0d7 - Operating System: Linux - System Architecture (eg. arm, x86_64, ...): x86_64 # Your problem description Aer actually supports an alternative syntax for control structures: namely, if, while, for, foreach, and switch. In each case, the basic form of the alternate syntax is to change the opening brace to a colon (:) and the closing brace to endif;, endwhile;, endfor;, endforeach;, or endswitch;, respectively. This so-called template syntax is unnecessary in Aer.